Only My Hairdresser Knows for Sure": Stories of Race, Hair and Gender

Only My Hairdresser Knows for Sure”: Stories of Race, Hair and Gender

“Once we were all together,” one of the women told me, “and my mother’s friend started calling us names, pointing
Contesting the Images of Oppression: Indigenous Views of Blackness in the Americas

Contesting the Images of Oppression: Indigenous Views of Blackness in the Americas

In the mid fifteenth century, sailors under the command of the Portuguese entrepreneur Prince Henry the Navigator began purchasing human
Mapuches Press for Autonomy

Mapuches Press for Autonomy

On July 25, over a hundred members of Chile’s most militant indigenous group, the Mapuche, burst into government offices in
Race, Class and Color: Behind Brazil's "Racial Democracy

Race, Class and Color: Behind Brazil’s “Racial Democracy

Racism has its origins in the elaboration and expansion of a doctrine that justifies inequality among human beings, not so
The Marketing of El Cholo Toledo

The Marketing of El Cholo Toledo

The Marketing of El Cholo Toledo In 1990, the now infamous Alberto Fujimori ran for president against the renowned writer
Stories of Self-Definition

Stories of Self-Definition

What follows are excerpts-called "Stories of Self-Definitionw-from a number of case studies in Clara E. Rodriguez's Changing Race: Latinos, the